Meredith Kercher

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In the past week, CPJ has received a number of emails in
reaction to our April
19 letter, signed by Executive Director Joel Simon, to Italian President
Giorgio Napolitano, which details cases of harassment by Perugia authorities against journalists,
writers, and bloggers who have critically covered high-profile local murder
cases. Some of the emails we have received question the accuracy of our letter
as well as our motives for writing it. Most of those stem from this post in reaction to our
letter by a blogger, who goes by the penname Kermit.

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President Napolitano: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about local authorities' harassment of journalists and media outlets who criticize the official investigation into the November 2007 brutal murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in the central Italian city of Perugia. CPJ is particularly troubled by the manifest intolerance to criticism displayed by Perugia Public Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, who has filed or threatened to file criminal lawsuits against individual reporters, writers, and press outlets, both in Italy and the United States, in connection with the Kercher murder investigation as well as the investigation into the Monster of Florence serial killings.